Diana Rigg Quotes

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

I've worked with a lot of first time directors; in fact, I enjoy it because there is a certain beginner's mind that they bring into a project that isn't loaded with the way things have been done before. There's a certain freedom to it.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.

To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!

I go into the whole composer thing quite open to keep on going and keep on trying different things because you never know... the next idea you have might be the one.

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.

Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

My favorite thing about working with Lady Gaga is really just the sheer level of creativity she brings to the table. And she's really one of the most intelligent people I've ever known. Her intelligence is equaled by her heart.

I get influence from everybody and everything.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.